This sounds like the old farts at the public course by where my in-laws live who claim that the pros couldn't figure out their greens and that they are so soft they couldn't hack it on their "real course".

That real course being a slope 110 with 2 par 5s that are 3-wood, 7-iron and 2 par 4s that are drive able with irons. Somehow I don't think pros are quaking in their boots to score badly there.

I don't advocate LCP unless you are forced to play and the conditions make it obvious that there are questionable debates over plugging or playing as it lies. Otherwise. The ball should be played as hit.

No matter what you do, you still have to hit a good shot and you are playing the same course/rules.

However LCP is optional and if you do use it you are required to post those scores so even though @ImpactInstinx thinks it's perfectly normal and acceptable he is in fact padding whatever index he has for when he can't play those rules where the committee doesn't allow his LCP.

So you are basing your opinion on a single region of the country that has historically wet conditions for this time of year. It just happens this tournament is using LCP because of the abnormal winter conditions the south has had. So you are basing your opinions on an outlier. That holds no water.